Atlanta Biz Chronicle names Mandel its managing editor

Eric Mandel

Eric Mandel has been named managing editor of The Atlanta Business Chronicle.

He has spent the last year as editor of The National Observer, the American City Business Journals’ daily national email newsletter.

Mandel previously was a web producer and a senior editor for the Business Chronicle, which he joined in June 2017.

He also worked in Seattle for Bonneville International and Pacific Publishing. Mandel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.